Managing Early Intervention for Police

• In Event: Early Intervention Systems: The State of the Art

Abstract

Police early intervention (EI) systems are not self-implementing; to the contrary, they require not only thorough planning but also on-going management and oversight. Based on case studies of six agencies’ EI systems, including reviews of policy documents, interviews with command- and line-level personnel, and surveys of officers, we offer a comparative assessment of the organizational and managerial challenges that EI systems pose and how the challenges have been addressed.

Authors

• Robert E Worden, University at Albany, SUNY

• Sarah J McLean, The John F. Finn Institute